108 PROF. A. D. IMMS ON 



this reason it has only been possible to describe it in a general 

 fashion. The markings on the legs are an exception, being 

 I'emarkably constant. 



Length varying from 2-4-5 mm. ; avei-age length 3-5 mm. 



Twenty-seven specimens from Nara Ghat, in the Terai, Nepal 

 {Indian Museimi Collector, February 25th and 26th, 1908); and 

 two immature specimens from Butal, also in the Terai, Nepal, 

 taken by the same collector (February 12tli, 1908). 



Nos. -^r-r- and ,-^ Indian Museum Coll. 



lb lb 



This species shares the characters of the genera Paronella and 

 Gampylothorax. It resembles the latter genus, and diflers fi'om 

 typical members of Paronella in the great size of the fourth 

 abdominal segment. It is readily separated from Campylothorax 

 by the fact that the metathorax is straight and not curved upon 

 itself. 



Paronella travancorica, sp. n. (PI. IX. figs. 62-66 ; PI. X. 

 fig. 67.) 



tegmentum ahdom'male qioartum | partem truncl occupans. 

 Antennoi corpore breviores. Ocelli 16:8 in utroqiie latere capitis. 

 Unguiculus sujjerior denticulo tmo armatus ; unguicidus inferior 

 actiminatics, inermis. Mucrones lati, rectangulares. Long. 3"5-4"5 

 mm. 



Read. — Clothed with scales. The eyes eight in number on each 

 side (tig. 64) ; post-antennal organs absent. 



Antennce. — A little shorter than the body. The joints related 

 in length as 7:8:6:15 (fig. 67). The basal joint clothed with 

 setee and acuminate scales ; the distal three-fourths of the 

 terminal joint slightly and irregularly annulated. 



Trunk. — Clothed with scales and scattered sette. The scales 

 (fig. 66) linear or linear-oval in shape. A group of strongly 

 chitinised setse forming a kind of " collar " or "frill "along the 

 anterior border of the mesothorax, and a tuft of similar setse at 

 the extremity of the abdomen. The segments mutually related in 

 length as 10:5:3:5:5: 22 :4:1; the fourth abdominal 

 segment occupying two-fifths the total length of the body (fig. 67). 



Legs. — Svib-equal. A single tenent hair at the distal extremity 

 of each tibia. The superior claws of the feet (figs. 62 and 63) 

 nearly straight, broad at the base ; a single minute tooth on the 

 inner margin near the base of the claw. In two specimens, on 

 the first pair of legs, there was present a minute tooth situated in 

 front of the first tooth, and separated from it by a distance equal 

 to one third the total length of the claw. The inferior claio 

 lanceolate and acuminate, unarmed. Psendonychia large. 



Ventral Tube. — Long, with highly protrusible bilobed vesicles ; 

 the anterior lobe of each four times the length of the posterior 

 lobe (fig. 67). 



Haniula. — The corpus with a stout median anterior seta 



